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‘Science Memes’: 50 Of The Most Relatable Posts That Perfectly Marry Knowledge And Humor
The Facebook page 'Science Memes' is a fun and engaging online project that blends numbers and equations with pop culture references, wordplay, and relatable real-life scenarios.
From the latest scientific discoveries to lab mishaps and academic struggles, the page offers a lighthearted perspective on subjects that are often stereotypically labeled as repetitive and boring.
With over 1.3 million followers, 'Science Memes' has become a popular destination for those who enjoy learning and laughing, so let's give it a go and see what it has been posting lately.
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On the surface, memes are a just source of entertainment – a way for people to express themselves through remixed templates of text, images, and videos. Some even call them the wallpaper of our social media feeds. And rightfully so — memes are everywhere on the internet and often provide us with a few minutes of idle, amusing fodder for procrastination during our day.
But they also have a serious side, according to researchers looking at modern forms of communication. They are a language in themselves, with a capacity to transcend cultures and construct collective identities between people. These sharable visual jokes can also be powerful tools for self-expression, connection, social influence, and even political subversion.
Internet memes "are one of the clearest manifestations of the fact there is such a thing as digital culture," Paolo Gerbaudo, a reader in digital politics and director of the Centre for Digital Culture at Kings College London, told the BBC.
Gerbaudo described memes as a "sort of a ready-made language with many kinds of stereotypes, symbols, situations. A palette that people can use, much like emojis, in a way, to convey a certain content".
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Vix Spiderthrust 2 years ago
"In fact the cat in the box can be in any one of *three* states, these being a) alive, b) dead, and c) bloody furious" - Terry Pratchett
Anna Stephenson 2 years ago
Imagine if someone was stupid enough to try that with Greebo!?
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HelluvaHedgehogAlien 2 years ago
‘After centuries of imprisonment with radioactive substances and poison within the horror of the only cardboard box it didn’t like, Schrödinger’s Cat start a petition to change its name into something that doesn’t have anything to do with its sworn enemy’
Kyllein MacKellerann 2 years ago
Schrodinger's cat refused to stay in the box, causing Schrodinger no end of difficulty.
You Should Do Nothing with the Fence 2 years ago
I swear I see a Hammerhead shark costume in the back...
Reenzy Bennington 2 years ago
Is the cat dead or alive or possessed by a demon hallucinating bees its allergic to?
Cyber Returns 2 years ago
Schrödinger didn't think of option 3 of his 'Cat in a Box' experiment... Is the cat dead, alive or angry?
According to Instagram, over one million posts mentioning the word "meme" were shared every day in 2020.
But the first one to use it was evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins, who coined the term in his 1976 book The Selfish Gene, likening discrete pieces of human culture that propagate between people to genes.
Dawkins shortened the ancient Greek word "mimeme" – with an apology to his classicist colleagues – to meme, making it rhyme with "cream". He suggested that memes were melodies, ideas, catchphrases, or bits of information that leap from brain to brain through imitation, expediting their transmission.
He used the term to highlight how human culture can replicate itself. In that sense, memes have been around probably since humans have had cultures they have shared. But we can also see the kernels of what makes modern internet memes so successful in ancient forms of pop culture.
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XenoMurph 2 years ago
I drove my mother home from the hospital after her double mastectomy for terminal cancer. We got the the house with all the family there for support. It was very subdued and depressing. A bird came to the feeder. I thought I'd change the subject and talk about the lovely bird, maybe lighten the mood: "Oh, look, you have Great Tits!" It lightened the mood...
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Stardust she/her 2 years ago (edited)
The “picture” of the exoplanets is mostly just light in different wavelenghts that passed through the planet’s atmosphere. Based on the wavelenght, we can roughly tell what elements are present on the planet but not accurately guess how it looks. Planets 5 billion kilometres away (those in our solar system) have been visited by probes that have sensitive equipment and they use indivisual images to map out the whole planet. Edit: Just added a small point I forgot to mention
"We see the replication of mundane reality in many forms of art," said Idil Galip, a doctoral researcher at the University of Edinburgh, and founder of the Meme Studies Research Network. "Even going back to, let's say, Hellenic times, you've got something like tragic theatre, that takes things that happen to you that are upsetting and real-life and makes them into comedic things, which is what memes do."
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But with the arrival of the internet, memes have become a more tangible phenomenon that can be observed as they grow, spread, and mutate. Researchers at Facebook showed in a study just how widely memes posted on their platform can evolve. In one example, they found 121,605 different variants of one particular meme posted across 1.14 million status updates.
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Michael Largey 2 years ago
Theory (I am a mathematician, but it's a theory, so no charge.): Cutting the bread diagonally makes some bites less efficient, as in less sandwich per bite. (At four places you are eating triangular bites half the areas of your usual squarish bites.) Therefore, more bites and so the illusion of more sandwich.
For more of this good stuff, check out Bored Panda's earlier publication on the Facebook page 'Science Memes' as well as our pieces on the Facebook group titled 'The Lighter Side Of Science' and the Instagram account 'Memes Of Science.'
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Stardust she/her 2 years ago
The blackhole scene is kind of nonsense. He would’ve been spaghettified and died but it’s not like movies depict reality so I’ll let it slide
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Calfun 2 years ago
This is the articles we want on BP. Not I was abusive and my wife divorced me. AITA?
dab 2 years ago (edited)
what would the scientific algorithm be for A.I.T.A.?
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Kenny Kulbiski 2 years ago
Some of these I didn't get but I'll be damned if I'll ask for explanations. That would be as bad as reading the directions.
Will J Dochartaigh 2 years ago
Some directions have pictures, reading not required
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Holly Allen 2 years ago
I have been made more smart and realized how dumb I am all in one post
Mim“the Swede”Sorensson 2 years ago (edited)
That’s how science works. That’s what science IS. Which is why some people dislike it so much, I guess.
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Thrudd 2 years ago
If I was a symphonic super conductor the audience would be screaming mho mho mho.
Franz 1 year ago
Dear fellow readers you can read the last post (picture only) that bp asks money for before reading (understand my English not a native speaker) by long tapping or right clicking on it and touching or clicking on preview image in your browser I made this account only to tell this to you in case you don't know (though I think you know) thank you bp staff don't read this
Freya the Wanderer 2 years ago
BP, again with your arbitrary truncation! If you're going to shorten a thread, please do so when it's at least 65 entries long. Then you can stop at 50 and require that people click to read at least 15 more.
Mary Peace 2 years ago
But the others are there if you want to read them, so why does it matter? People can stop when they've had enough anyway.
Load More Replies... Calfun 2 years ago
This is the articles we want on BP. Not I was abusive and my wife divorced me. AITA?
dab 2 years ago (edited)
what would the scientific algorithm be for A.I.T.A.?
Load More Replies... Kenny Kulbiski 2 years ago
Some of these I didn't get but I'll be damned if I'll ask for explanations. That would be as bad as reading the directions.
Will J Dochartaigh 2 years ago
Some directions have pictures, reading not required
Load More Replies... Holly Allen 2 years ago
I have been made more smart and realized how dumb I am all in one post
Mim“the Swede”Sorensson 2 years ago (edited)
That’s how science works. That’s what science IS. Which is why some people dislike it so much, I guess.
Load More Replies... Thrudd 2 years ago
If I was a symphonic super conductor the audience would be screaming mho mho mho.
Franz 1 year ago
Dear fellow readers you can read the last post (picture only) that bp asks money for before reading (understand my English not a native speaker) by long tapping or right clicking on it and touching or clicking on preview image in your browser I made this account only to tell this to you in case you don't know (though I think you know) thank you bp staff don't read this
Freya the Wanderer 2 years ago
BP, again with your arbitrary truncation! If you're going to shorten a thread, please do so when it's at least 65 entries long. Then you can stop at 50 and require that people click to read at least 15 more.
Mary Peace 2 years ago
But the others are there if you want to read them, so why does it matter? People can stop when they've had enough anyway.
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